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In light of
#JennaOrtega
boosting DecolonizePalestine, a Times of Israel blogger was “horrified” and set out to smear the website, calling it antisemitic propaganda and Jenna ignorant at best.
We went through his terrible blogs so you don’t have to!
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Times of Israel “horrified” at our website which Jenna Ortega posted a link to, what a lovely compliment!
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40 years have passed, but we have not forgotten. On this day in 1982, a massacre was carried out by Zionist and Lebanese Phalangist forces in the Palestinian refugee camps of
#SabraAndShatila
. Thousands were dragged out of their homes and killed.
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“Palestinians lost their chance for peace when they rejected the 1947 UN Partition Plan” the truth: a thread 🧵 👇
75 years ago, the UN passed the Partition Resolution.
Palestinians are still denied the right to self-determination enshrined in international law.
On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, we must renew our calls for a free & independent Palestine.
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To our new followers, welcome, and to the old followers that led them here, thank you!
This time of year we work extra hard to combat the fever pitch of Zionist propaganda.
So here’s a thread of Nakba-related myths we’ve debunked:
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NEW ARTICLE UNLOCKED: The myth of Israeli self-defense
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As Israel is once again raining terror down on Gaza, you may see Zionists make the claim that the death of children and civilians is due to them being used as "human shields".
This is yet another complete inversion of reality.
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This is the same Rabin that expelled 10,000s of Palestinians from their homes in Lydda and force-marched them to Ramallah. No water or aid was given, and hundreds died on the way. Chilling testimonies from the survivors evoke genocide by imperialist forces all over the globe:
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“Zionism isn’t Colonialism”
But it is. In today’s post, we go back 125 years to the very first Zionist conference, so we can hear it directly from the source
Thread to follow, full article link:
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On this day, 105 years ago, the UK Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued the infamous Balfour Declaration, which supported the establishment of a “Jewish homeland” in Palestine.
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Today is
#PalestinianPrisonersDay
. Over 4450 Palestinians remain imprisoned in Israeli prisons, where they face daily harassment and torture.
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As expected, the blogs offer no actual refutation of any of the points made, and does what amounts to throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks.
Yes, Yizhak Rabin was by any definition a war criminal. He led a literal death march where hundreds died.
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22 years ago today, the Second Intifada erupted. It marked a pivotal moment in Palestine and went on to deeply influence Palestinian society as we know it today.
What happened during the Second Intifada, and how did it come about? Read this thread to learn more 👇
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Greta Thunberg’s solidarity is welcome, as Palestine is also a climate justice issue! We wrote about this and Israeli greenwashing campaigns here:
Week 270. Today we strike in solidarity with Palestine and Gaza. The world needs to speak up and call for an immediate ceasefire, justice and freedom for Palestinians and all civilians affected.
#FreePalestine
#IStandWithPalestine
#StandWithGaza
#FridaysForFuture
Thread🧵
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From us here at DecolonizePalestine, happy Algerian Independence Day!
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Anyway, free Palestine and consider becoming a patron to keep a Times of Israel blogger mad.
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It wasn’t us who founded our movement in Basel or established a colonial trust and a colonization department.
Nor would we ever infantilize Palestinians who resisted their ethnic cleansing as he does here with the sneering “pacific” descriptor.
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Before deleting and bizarrely blaming this drivel on 🌱, Silverman parroted oft-repeated falsehoods about water+electricity access in Gaza
We have 10 points to break down the logic underpinning this support for genocide, starting with a quick overview of conditions in Gaza:
Sarah Silverman shared this genocidal post on Instagram about Gaza.
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Source of testimony:
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Today marks the 54th anniversary of the 1967 war, where Israel launched a sneak attack on Egypt mere days before deescalation talks were scheduled to begin.
It cited many pretexts for this aggression, none of which hold up to scrutiny.
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It was the original Zionist founders who called us barbarians and “useless Kushim” to justify dispossessing us.
This language of racial and moral superiority is the same-old rhetoric of colonial justification.
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For
#WorldPressFreedomDay
, we wanted to highlight some of the violations Israeli Occupation Forces have inflicted on Palestinian journalists when reporting on Palestine.
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Tomorrow, May 15th 2022 marks 74 years since the
#Nakba
, the start of 74 years of
#occupation
at the hands of Zionist colonizers. Thousands of Palestinians were killed and nearly a million were forced out of their homes and turned into refugees.
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Is the Palestinian question really uniquely complicated?
Treating Palestine as exceptional in complexity is often an attempt to justify things you would never condone in different contexts under the guise of 'nuance'.
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Since Saturday October 7th, the website has been facing repeated DDoS attacks which have caused the website to periodically go down. We are working on getting it back up now and finding a solution.
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We also noticed how he conveniently mixes and matches, replacing words such as “Israeli” or “Zionist” with “Jew” to completely misrepresent arguments, putting words in our mouths not mentioned anywhere on the site.
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None of this is even implied on the website. This is a complete imagined position that the author projects onto us so he can dismiss us without addressing the points raised.
This is not the only time he resorts to this while accusing us of “rhetorical tricks”.
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This can be clearly seen here, where he calls the website full of “antisemitic tropes”. You’d think if they were so abundant he would be able to quote a few.
If he read anything about “shadowy operators” it is only because he wills it onto the text.
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What is actually “horrifying” to the author, is that support for Palestinians outside the failed two-state paradigm is becoming more mainstream. That Palestinian dispossession is no longer seen as a given as has been for so long.
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What is admirable about nightclubs on top of destroyed villages?
How is dumping sewage and uprooting olive trees compatible with being a so-called “leader on environmental protections”?
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Saying that our sources are either inaccessible or debunked is laughable, we link to rigorous scholarship that can be verified from multiple sources.
We apologize that the notion of old primary sources is foreign to you.
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Israel could only exist because of the destruction of Palestinian society.
It is natural for people living under this status quo to want to reject it and its colonialism.
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In this historic moment which has brought us closer to liberation from the river to the sea, Zionists continue to smear this call for freedom and justice as a call to genocide: they could not be more wrong.
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For all the claims about “lies” nothing is actually contested or refuted. Just a general assurance that the whole site is full of lies, and antisemitism, and the plague so just avoid.
(Yeah Haaretz is only left-wing through the reactionary lens of Israeli politics)
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P.S. Redwashing was about the idea of early Kibbutzim being socialist and current claims of Zionism being compatible with leftism. It has nothing to do with this fever dream of an ultra-progressive Israeli government structure.
(As you welcome Netanyahu as PM for the 6th time)
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Setting aside the inflammatory smear, this is not even what the articles are about. These supposed “good things” he is referring to are critically taken apart, revealing that their outwardly progressive veneer is a farce.
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Guy who only knows how to scaremonger about Hamas: Getting a lot of Hamas vibes from this.
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Today is the annual
#PalestinianHeritageDressDay
, and for it we turned to you, our audience! So we present to you a collection of different Palestinian thobes from all over Palestine, to celebrate and remember the beauty of traditional Palestinian thobes.
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#SheikhJarrah
is further proof that the
#Nakba
is continuous, and that the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to make way for a Jewish majority was always the goal rather than an unintended outcome
#انقذوا_حي_الشيخ_جراح
#Save_Sheikh_Jarrah
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Cut of all telecommunications to Gaza. No phone calls, not even to ambulances.
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On International Worker’s Day, we celebrate the Palestinian working class in their struggle against Zionist settlers and their collaborators.
We know that the Zionist movement is and always will be incompatible with socialism, as we wrote about here:
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If you’re on Instagram, so is DecolonizePalestine!
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1 year of DecolonizePalestine!
We wanted to highlight some of the milestones and events from this past year & thank you for coming on this great journey with us.
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We got to witness a step of real decolonization.
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Why, then, were Palestinians expected to agree to give away most of their land to a minority of recently arrived settlers? Why is the rejection of such an unjust proposal framed as irrational or hateful?
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For
#Pride2021
, read here about the struggles of Queer Palestinians in dealing with occupation and apartheid while having bigotry against them weaponized in more ways than one
#pinkwashing
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We're very proud to bring you the first entry in the DecolonizePalestine
#BookClub
! This on-going series is going to cover the resources that we have used in our articles, delving into each resource individually.🧵to follow!
For our full reading list:
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A talking point commonly deployed against Palestinians is that their rejection of the UN Partition Plan is the root cause for all the misery and conflict that followed.
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This is a classic case of victim blaming. Today, on the anniversary of the UN Partition plan, we tackle this ahistorical myth.
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What does it even mean to say that Israel -or any other state- has a right to exist?
From the get-go, this is a ridiculous question that has absolutely no legal backing in international law.
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To add insult to injury, the UN partition plan allotted approximately 56% of the land of mandatory Palestine to the Zionist state, much of this land being the most fertile and strategically useful.
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Today marks 74 years since the Deir Yassin massacre, in which hundreds of Palestinian civilians were killed at the hands of Zionist militias. Read more about Deir Yassin, the events of the 1948 war, and the myth of self-defense:
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Today and every day, reject the lie that Palestinians left willingly.
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Some highlights from the article 1/2
Amidst the widespread demonization of Palestinian resistance against the Zionist settler-colonial monster which seeks to exterminate us, I wrote this piece putting Al Aqsa Flood into context:
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Israel has never had one day in its entire existence where all the people it ruled were equal.
There can be no equality in a colonial ethnocracy
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This year Israel has killed more than 100 Palestinians in the West Bank alone with 17 from the start of October, including 8 Palestinian children. Palestinians’ struggle against this oppression has recently increased in intensity 🧵
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The argument typically goes:
“Had the Palestinians only accepted the UN partition plan in 1947, they too could have been celebrating their independence alongside Israel.”
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If you want to learn more about the
#Nakba
, in light of the discussion raised by the Netflix movie
#Farha
, you can start here 👇
Tomorrow, May 15th 2022 marks 74 years since the
#Nakba
, the start of 74 years of
#occupation
at the hands of Zionist colonizers. Thousands of Palestinians were killed and nearly a million were forced out of their homes and turned into refugees.
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The Israeli army’s barbarity is nothing new, even as it continues to try and present itself as moral or acting in “self-defense”.
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The entitlement of the Zionist movement in wanting to establish an ethnostate in an area where they were so utterly outnumbered was a dark sign of what was to come for the Palestinian people.
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Today marks the anniversary of the start of the first
#Intifada
, a critical moment in the history of the Palestinian cause that would have long-lasting impact. A thread 🧵 👇:
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You can read the full article and many other great articles on our website:
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In 1919, the World Zionist Organization put forward a plan which included all of historical Palestine, as well as parts of Lebanon, Syria, and Transjordan. At the time, the Jewish population of this proposed state would have been a minuscule portion of the total population.
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“But Palestinians sold their land!"
How often have you had this line thrown at you when talking about Palestine? 🤔
We help you debunk this myth in the link below 👇
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As always, we reject the idea that the state of Israel has “the right to exist” and that Palestinian erasure is a price we should be willing to pay for said existence. States don’t have a right to exist, people do.
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Happy new year from your friends at DecolonizePalestine! As another year passes, our inevitable return draws a day closer
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When the partition of Palestine is brought up, most tend to think of the 1947 UNGA resolution. However, this was not the first partition scheme to be presented.
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While addressing the Zionist Executive, Ben Gurion reemphasized that any acceptance of partition would be tactical and temporary:
“After the formation of a large army in the wake of the establishment of the state, we will abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine.”
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The majority of the settlers demanding partition of the land had barely been living there for 20-30 years at the most.
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even on the eve of the Nakba, the Jewish population in mandatory Palestine was was less than a third.
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Kafr Qasim was one of 7 Palestinian villages put under curfew the eve of the war. The curfew was to begin at 6:00 PM, the mayor of Kafr Qasim was informed of the curfew at 5:30 PM.
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The plan was always to have the whole of Palestine, not just bits and pieces. This bloody expansionism continues to the present day.
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Even after waves of Jewish settlers to Palestine, and the much smaller area allocated to the Jewish state in the later 1947 partition plan, the proposed Jewish state would not have had a Jewish majority without additional settlement;
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As a matter of fact, Ben Gurion was quite explicit:
“I don’t regard a state in part of Palestine as the final aim of Zionism, but as a mean toward that aim.”
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Yet for some, this is not seen as convincing reasoning for the rejection of partition. They acknowledge the obscene injustice of what was being asked of Palestinians,
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The DecolonizePalestine
#BookClub
is back! This on-going series is going to cover the resources that we have used in our articles, delving into each resource individually.🧵to follow!
For our full reading list:
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yet they argue that due to the historical persecution of the Jewish people, especially following the Holocaust, creating a Jewish state was necessary no matter the price for Palestinians.
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On freeing Gaza and all of Palestine once and for all:
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For our 1 year anniversary, we wanted to share our most read articles over the past year! So if you're new to DecolonizePalestine, or you want to refresh your memory on one of these topics 🧵👇 to follow
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On the deeply appreciated offers to volunteer translations:
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With the start of
#Pride2022
, we wanted to focus on the struggles of Queer Palestinians in dealing with the Israeli occupation, while having bigotry against them weaponized in more ways than one, as well as the
#pinkwashing
practices of Israel.
Link:
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Today is
#PalestinianHeritageDay
! And to celebrate, we present you with a collection of one of the most significant parts of our heritage: The Palestinian Thobe!
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The greatest insult, is perhaps that Shadmi, the commander responsible for the massacre, was fined ONE CENT. He was later promoted.
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If you look closely at the 1947 partition plan, you will notice that some of the first areas ethnically cleansed by Zionist forces were supposed to be part of the "Arab" state. Before the 1948 war even began, about 300,000 Palestinians had been expelled.
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Partition as a concept was entirely rejected, and any acceptance in public was tactical in order for the newly created Jewish state to gather its strength before expanding.
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A thread of DecolonizePalestine podcast appearances:
Our Latest: Decolonize Palestine and
#SaveSheikhJarrah
with
@RiverToSea48
and
@AManInTheSun
(creators of
@DecolonizePS
)
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Even in letters to his family, he wrote that “A Jewish state is not the end but the beginning” detailing that settling the rest of Palestine depended on creating an “elite army”.
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This was not enough time for the news to reach the villagers, especially the ones in the fields. 49 of them, mostly women and children, were massacred on their way home.
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After outrage, and in an attempt to salvage its image, Israel put the soldiers on trial. All of them were released within a year and continued to climb the ranks.
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It is often brought up that the Yishuv agreed to the 1947 partition plan, showing goodwill and readiness to coexist and live with their Palestinian neighbors. A cursory glance at internal Yishuv meetings paints an entirely different picture.
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There was also a practical reason for why accepting or rejecting partition was irrelevant to the grand scheme of Zionist colonization of Palestine.
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On Juneteenth 2023, we are proud to contribute to
@scalawagmag
‘s Abolition Week with our piece “Imprisoning Palestine: Zionist colonialism through an abolitionist lens”
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At no point did the soldiers give any warning to anyone, preferring to shoot at visibly unarmed and unaware farmers returning from their fields.
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Chaim Weizmann, President of the Zionist Organization and later the first President of Israel, expected that:
“partition might be only a temporary arrangement for the next twenty to twenty-five years”.
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One of the most hotly contested topics when it comes to
#Palestine
is the “Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions”
#BDS
movement.
Today we’re going to be explaining what it is, what it’s goals are, and some of the misconceptions/bad faith criticisms aimed at it.
Part 1 of our guide🧵👇
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